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Mr Newman said the LNP was committed to $86 million over four years for trainees and apprentices to help the expected skill shortages on resources projects.

But he said the LNP also wanted to give local councils more power to release land to build houses to help overcome housing shortages in cities such as Mackay and in towns in the Bowen Basin such as Moranbah.

The LNP has moved to win over mining towns through its “royalties for regions" policy.

This includes a $170 million resources community building fund over four years to deliver social infrastructure to mining towns in Queensland.

The funding, which mirrors a West Australian scheme, will eventually increase to $100 million a year. It will come from mining royalties, but the LNP will also ask for additional funds from mining companies and other levels of government.

The LNP is unlikely to win the seat of Mackay, which is held by Labor on a 16.7 per cent margin, but it will have a better chance in the neighbouring seat of Whitsundays (3.2 per cent).

In a lightning visit to the sugar town of Bundaberg, Mr Newman took aim at former LNP MP Rob Messenger, who holds the seat of Burnett with an 11.1 per cent margin.

Premier
Anna Bligh
spent the day campaigning on the Gold Coast, as part of her plan to visit 50 seats in five days.

She has vowed to keep fighting up to election day, despite opinion polls suggesting an easy LNP victory.